Opera The Autobiography Of The Western World Illustrated Edition

Author : Simon Banks
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803131950
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition) written by Simon Banks and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260 paintings and photographs, most in colour, accompany the narrative. Why were particular myths and historical events important at particular times? Why were the same myths and historical events told in radically different ways? In seeking answers to these questions, this book charts how the modern West migrated from autocracy towards liberal democracy, from theocratic absolutism towards tolerant pluralism, from sexism towards gender equality. It traces growing scepticism about religiously inspired warfare and colonial empire building. Unlike anything previously published, this is a book for lovers of history and the arts, and for anyone interested in how the western world of today came into being. By exploring a bewitchingly beautiful art form, it chronicles a sequence of extraordinary transformations: the political, religious and social revolutions that created the modern West.

Author : Simon Banks
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803139528
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition) written by Simon Banks and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. Brought to life with over 250 colour illustrations, this book charts a comprehensive chronology of myth and history, from the creation to the present, as told in opera.

Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089533
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.

Author : Evan Baker (Opera historian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226035086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Score to the Stage written by Evan Baker (Opera historian) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life--by the stagehands who shift scenery, the scenic artists who create beautiful backdrops, the electricians who focus the spotlights, and the stage manager who calls them and the singers to their places during the performance. The first comprehensive history of the behind-the-scenes world of opera production and staging, From the Score to the Stage follows the evolution of visual style and set design in continental Europe from its birth in the seventeenth century up to today. In clear, witty prose, Evan Baker covers all the major players and pieces involved in getting an opera onto the stage, from the stage director who creates the artistic concept for the production and guides the singers' interpretation of their roles to the blocking of singers and placement of scenery. He concentrates on the people--composers, librettists, designers, and technicians--as well as the theaters and events that generated developments in opera production. Additional topics include the many difficulties in performing an opera, the functions of impresarios, and the business of music publishing. Delving into the absorbing and often neglected history of stage directing, theater architecture and technology, and scenic and lighting design, Baker nimbly links these technical aspects of opera to actual performances and performers, and the social context in which they appeared. Out of these details arise illuminating discussions of individual productions that cast new light on the operas of Wagner, Verdi, and others. Packed with nearly two hundred color illustrations, From the Score to the Stage is a revealing, always entertaining look at what happens before the curtain goes up on opening night at the opera house.

Author : David Nice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854357182
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Story of Opera written by David Nice and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of opera from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to modern productions, with summaries of thirty-two of the world's best-known operas, biographical profiles of twenty-four famous performers, and a glossary of musical terms.

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231140904
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment written by Jean Starobinski and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.

Author : Peter Lovrick
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844450
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Opera written by Peter Lovrick and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.

Author : Putnam, firm, publishers, New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book Buyer's Manual written by Putnam, firm, publishers, New York and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393018882
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas written by John W. Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is the definitive opera story collection, the only one now authorized by the Metropolitan Opera. Written by the associate editor of Opera News magazine, the volume includes the complete plots of 150 different operas, biographical information on all of the 72 composers represented, easy access to the stories through both a table of contents and an index, and a foreword by Peter Allen.